[PDF.05gf] Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics

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 | #1575798 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2004-04-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.92 x6.13l,1.11 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great book, entertaining style|By Kate Allison|While rather biased toward the institutional aspects of American politics during the Guilded Age, Summers' book does give insight into the strategies that the parties used to consolidate power near the turn of the century. His analysis is clear; and he provides relevant, and sometimes humorous, anecdotes. For instance, one man re

Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark recesses: vote-buying, election-rigging, blackguarding, news suppression, and violence.
Summers also points out that hardball politics and third-party challen...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics   |  Mark Wahlgren Summers. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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